Overview of CyStar

Documentation / CyStar Text Editor

• Overview
• Editing and Keys
• Files and Recovery
• Preferences
• Command Line

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CyStar

CyStar is Blueprint Desktop's text editor. The document surface is CyText, not stock XmText. The window is Motif chrome: menu bar, message line, status line, and a vertical zoom wheel.

One process holds one window. That window can hold several documents as tabs (File > New > New Tab, up to 12). File > New > New Window, or starting cystar again, is another process. The Window menu switches tabs in this process.

Key maps

Options > Preferences has two key maps. The choice takes effect immediately.

• Windows / Notepad is the default. Notepad chords win where they overlap Joe. Ctrl-Q and Alt-F4 quit. Joe chords that do not use those keys still work, including ^K save and quit.
• Joe / WordStar is the Joe 4.6 subset: ^K blocks and files, ^Q find and motion, ^G for this keys face.

An older cystar.conf that set windows_cut_paste off, and has no keymap key, opens in Joe / WordStar. See Editing and Keys.

What CyStar does not do

• It does not print.
• It does not colour syntax. Color Preferences recolors the canvas and, if asked, the window chrome. The bold, dim, and accent scheme roles are stored and are not a language highlighter.
• Joe / WordStar mode is not every Joe 4.6 command. An unknown chord is named on the message line. It is not a silent no-op.
• Bookmarks (Esc Esc, then Esc and a digit) last for this process only. They are not written to disk.
• There is no find-across-files.
• Spell check (Edit > Check Spelling) uses hunspell, else aspell, else ispell when one of those is on PATH. Off by default. Misspellings are marked with HighlightColor. Right-click a mark, or Ctrl+Up on a word, for suggestions.

In this book

• Editing and Keys
• Files and Recovery
• Preferences
• Command Line

Getting started

Open a file from the Session menu (Text Editor), from cyopen or the file manager, or run cystar with a path. A file:// URL from a desktop is accepted. Help > Keys & Shortcuts is the chord map for the map you are in. In Joe / WordStar mode, ^G opens that same face. In Windows / Notepad mode, Ctrl-G is Go to line, not the keys face. Help > Overview is this book.